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Coordination of Mars Orbiting Assets to Support Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) ActivitiesNASA policy requires continuous telecommunications with missions during the execution of their critical events, which implies constraints on where missions to other planets may land or inject into orbit. JPL is working to establish a telecommunications network at Mars to provide contact with inbound missions to Mars and assets that have landed on the Martian surface, thus reducing the constraints on where critical events may be performed. Coordination of network assets is required to cover an inbound mission's critical event, such as EDL. This paper describes the development of a tool to evaluate EDL coverage capability of Mars network assets over a specified launch date/arrival date space.
Document ID
20070030853
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
External Source(s)
Authors
Neelon, Joseph G.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Wallace, Mark
(Texas Univ. Austin, TX, United States)
Craig, Lynn E.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2004
Subject Category
Space Sciences (General)
Meeting Information
Meeting: AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics
Location: Maui, HI
Country: United States
Start Date: February 8, 2004
Sponsors: American Inst. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Astronomical Society
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
Mars Network
Mars
Entry, Descent, Landing (EDL)
critical event coverage

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